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n. [ OE. budde; cf. D. bot, G. butze, butz, the core of a fruit, bud, LG. butte in hagebutte, hainbutte, a hip of the dog-rose, or OF. boton, F. bouton, bud, button, OF. boter to bud, push; all akin to E. beat. See Button. ] 1. (Bot.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bud moth (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding. ] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To sprout; germinate; blossom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Hungary. Population (2000) = 2, 008, 546. [ PJC ]

n. [ Skr. buddha wise, sage, 'the enlightened' fr. budh to know. ] 1. The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The title of Siddhartha or Gautama, a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists and the founder of Buddhism; called also Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni). From three newly discovered inscriptions of the emperor Asoka it follows that the 37th year of his reign was reckoned as the 257th from the death of Buddha. Hence it is inferred that Buddha died between 482 and 472 B. C. It being agreed that he lived to be eighty, he was born between 562 and 552 B. C. The Buddhist narratives of his life are overgrown with legend and myth. Senart seeks to trace in them the history of the sun-hero. Oldenberg finds in the most ancient traditions -- those of Ceylon -- at least definite historical outlines. Siddhartha, as Buddha was called before entering upon his great mission, was born in the country and tribe of the Sakhyas, at the foot of the Nepalese Himalayas. His father, Suddhodana, was rather a great and wealthy landowner than a king. He passed his youth in opulence at Kapila-vastu, the Sakhya capital. He was married and had a son Rahula, who became a member of his order. At the age of twenty-nine he left parents, wife, and only son for the spiritual struggle of a recluse. After seven years he believed himself possessed of perfect truth, and assumed the title of Buddha, 'the enlightened.' He is represented as having received a sudden illumination as he sat under the Bo-tree, or ' tree of knowledge, ' at Bodhgaya or Buddha-Gaya. For twenty-eight or, as later narratives give it, forty-nine days he was variously tempted by Mara. One of his doubts was whether to keep for himself the knowledge won, or to share it. Love triumphed, and he began to preach, at first at Benares. For forty-four years he preached in the region of Benares and Behar. Primitive Buddhism is only to be gathered by inference from the literature of a later time. Buddha did not array himself against the old religion. The doctrines were rather the outgrowth of those of certain Brahmanical schools. His especial concern was salvation from sorrow, and so from existence. There are "four noble truths": (1) existence is suffering; (2) the cause of pain is desire, (3) cessation of pain is possible through the suppression of desire; (4) the way to this is the knowledge and observance of the "good law " of Buddha. The end is Nirvana, the cessation of existence. Buddhism was preached in the vulgar tongue, and had a popular literature and an elaborately organized monastic and missionary system. It made its way into Afghanistan, Bactriana., Tibet, and China. It passed away in India not from Brahman persecution, but rather from internal causes, such as its too abstract nature, too morbid view of life, relaxed discipline, and overgrowth of monasticism, and also because Shivaism and Vishnuism employed many of its own weapons more effectively. The system has been variously modified in dogma and rites in the many countries to which it has spread. It is supposed to number about 850, 000, 000 of adherents, who are principally in Ceylon, Tibet, China, and Japan. [ Century Dict. 1906. ]

n. The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, “the awakened or enlightened, ” in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470, 000, 000. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Buddhist, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E., to cleanse ore, also a vessel for this purpose; cf. G. butteln to shake. ] (Mining) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Mining) To wash ore in a buddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Bude light. ] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Bude, in Cornwall, the residence of Sir G. Gurney, the inventor. ] A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Budged p. pr. & vb. n. Budging. ] [ F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i. ] To move off; to stir; to walk away. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge
From rascals worse than they. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Budge, v. ] Brisk; stirring; jocund. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bouge bag, OF. boge, bouge, fr. L. bulga a leathern bag or knapsack; a Gallic word; cf. OIr. bolc, Gael. bolg. Cf. Budge, n. ] A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. “Budge gowns.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Austere or stiff, like scholastics. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. --
Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sternness; severity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness. Stanyhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who budges. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hindi bajrā. ] A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Syn. -- budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bogett, bouget, F. bougette bag, wallet, dim. of OF. boge, bouge, leather bag. See Budge, n., and cf. Bouget. ] 1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to a budget; as, budgetary considerations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Syn. -- budgerigar, budgereegah, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Budge, n. ] Consisting of fur. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bud + -let. ] A little bud springing from a parent bud. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of mammals comprising the gnu goats.
Syn. -- genus Budorcas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A species of Ranunculus (Ranunculus bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Bud, v. ] (Hort.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance.
Syn. -- worrier, fusspot, worrywart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Like a fussbudget; fussy; grouchy. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To sprout. [ Poetic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas. [ 1913 Webster ]